Director Regulatory Relations

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Director to join our Regulatory Relations team in Paris, supporting Barclays' engagement with European regulators, and helping shape the firm's regulatory strategy across Barclays Europe and the wider Group. The successful candidate will bring significant experience in regulatory, legal, compliance, regulatory management or corporate governance functions, together with a strong understanding of the European regulatory landscape and supervisory environment.

Working closely with senior stakeholders in Paris and London, the individual will be responsible for monitoring emerging regulatory developments and supervisory priorities, leveraging insights from the ECB and other European authorities to provide timely, strategic advice to business and functional leaders. The role will help ensure Barclays remains well-positioned to anticipate and respond to regulatory change, while maintaining strong and constructive relationships with key stakeholders.

The Director will play a central role in supporting the Barclays Europe Board and senior governance forums, coordinating high-quality materials, briefings and communications for Board, Executive Committee and regulatory engagements. The individual will act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders across Barclays Europe and the Group, ensuring consistent messaging, effective information flow and robust tracking of regulatory themes, requests and commitments.

In addition, the role will support Barclays' public policy and advocacy agenda in France, helping to develop relationships with external stakeholders and contribute to thought leadership on key regulatory topics. The successful candidate will bring a strong Chief of Staff skillset, combining strategic thinking, exceptional organisational capability and excellent written communication skills to coordinate complex deliverables across multiple stakeholders and jurisdictions.

This is a high-profile role requiring exceptional judgement, strong communication and influencing skills, and the ability to operate independently in a complex, highly regulated environment. The successful candidate is likely to have 12+ years of relevant experience gained within a financial institution, regulatory authority, legal or compliance function, corporate governance team, or professional services environment, with a proven track record of supporting senior executives and navigating regulatory matters at the highest levels of an organisation.

Preferred Background

• Significant experience in Regulatory Relations, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory Management, Corporate Governance or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of European financial services regulation and the supervisory framework.
• Experience engaging with senior executives, board members and external stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication, briefing and reporting skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience operating within an international organisation and working with stakeholders across both Paris and London.
• Strong strategic, organisational and stakeholder management capabilities consistent with a Chief of Staff profile.

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
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